What Was the Underground Railroad
What was the Underground Railroad?
What is: The underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses.
What did Stationmasters do?
What is: Hid slaves in their homes?
Which one of these people was not an abolitionist?
William Still, Martin Luther King, Levi Coffin, Susan B. Anthony, Gerrit Smith.
What is: Martin Luther King?
True or False?
Tubman was considered such a threat to the slave system that plantation owners offered a $40,000 reward for her capture.
What is: True?
When did Harriet Tubman run away from the plantation?
What is 1849?
About how many slaves escaped each year?
What is about 1,000 slaves.
What were the people escaping called?
What is: Passengers or cargo?
True or False?
Station were about 10 miles apart.
What is False.
They were about 20 miles apart from each other.
How many slaves did Harriet Tubman free?
What is: Approximately 300?
What was Harriet Tubman's job on the Underground Railroad?
When did Harriet Tubman die?
What is Conductor?
What is 1913?
Who were poeple that helped slaves find the railroad?
What is Shepherds?
What would the fugitives travel by?
What is: Trains, Boats, Foot, or Carts.
True or False?
Any person aiding a runaway slave by providing shelter, food or any other form of assistance was liable to six months' imprisonment and a $1,000 find.
What is True?
Where was Harriet Tubman born?
What is: Maryland Broadus Plantation
What was the secret password that escaping slaves used on their journey north?
What was the code for Canada?
What is: Friends of friends
What is: Heaven
What were guides known as?
Where does the underground railroad take place?
What is the South?
Who was Tomas Garret, and what did Thomas Garret do?
What is: He is the Delaware Station-Master?
What is: He paid more than $8,000 in fines.
What was Harriet Tubman's real name?
What is: Araminta?
What happened in 1850 that allowed bounty hunters to chase fugitive slaves into free states?
What is: The Fugitive Slave Act became law?
What was another name for Hiding places?
What is: Stations?
When was the underground railroad first operated?
What is 1787?
Why was it called the "Underground" railroad and just not a railroad?
What is: Because Underground means that no one knew about it except for the people involved in it.?
Why did Harriet Tubman have strange sleeping spells?
What is: She was hit on the head by a heavy metal weight.
Why were slaves free in Canada?
What were slave quilts used for on the Underground Railroad?
What is: in 1833, King William IV of Brittan agreed to a bill that ended slavery in Canada?
What is: As coded maps?